'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about an almost forgotten Katherine Phillips, "the matchless Orinda", impressed that her work is mentioned with "the highest respect, admiration and reverence by the writers of that time".'
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'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'
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Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Katherine Phillips, 'A Virgin'.
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[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather stiff, but seem to have an air of genuineness -- and were not printed for Curl, but Lintot.'
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[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since I met with them that I remember very little what they were. All that I recollect of her poetry is, that it is very moral and sentimental; and all that I know of herself is, that her genius and character are mentioned with the highest respect, admiration, and reverence by the writers of that time. I believe her Poems are very scarce; I have two or three little pieces in a miscellany, which if you have any curiosity to see I will send you. I never saw Mr Hanway's two volumes but in an advertisement, nor do I know what they are about, but am glad they have afforded you an agreeable amusement.'
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[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since I met with them that I remember very little what they were. All that I recollect of her poetry is, that it is very moral and sentimental; and all that I know of herself is, that her genius and character are mentioned with the highest respect, admiration, and reverence by the writers of that time. I believe her Poems are very scarce; I have two or three little pieces in a miscellany, which if you have any curiosity to see I will send you. I never saw Mr Hanway's two volumes but in an advertisement, nor do I know what they are about, but am glad they have afforded you an agreeable amusement.'
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